1842 in Scotland
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Events from the year 1842 in Scotland.
See also:List of years in Scotland
Timeline of Scottish history
1842 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Timeline of Scottish history
1842 in: The UK ⢠Wales ⢠Elsewhere
Incumbents
Law officers
- Lord Advocate â Sir William Rae, Bt until October; then Duncan McNeill
- Solicitor General for Scotland â Duncan McNeill; then Adam Anderson
Judiciary
Events
- 3 January â 3rd Scottish Convention of Chartists opens in Glasgow.[1]
- 21 February â Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway opened.[2]
- 29 April â New Market opened in Aberdeen.[3]
- May â the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland makes a "Claim of Rights" (drafted by Alexander Colquhoun-Stirling-Murray-Dunlop) asserting the church's independence of state control in spiritual matters.[4]
- 1 September â Queen Victoria arrives by sea at Granton, Edinburgh, to start her first visit to Scotland.[5]
- September â Robert Davidson's experimental battery-electric locomotive Galvani is demonstrated on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.
- The Sobieski Stuarts' Vestiarium Scoticum is published in Edinburgh, purporting to be a reproduction from an old manuscript illustrating traditional Scottish clan tartan dress.
- A velocipede rider from Dumfriesshire, perhaps Kirkpatrick Macmillan, knocks down a pedestrian in the Gorbals district of Glasgow.[6]
- James Shanks patents and begins to produce the pony-drawn lawn mower.[7]
- Glasgow Botanic Gardens moves to its current location.
- Carnoustie Golf Links opened.[8]
Births
- 16 April â Laidlaw Purves, surgeon and golfer (died 1917 in England)
- 1 May â David Boyle, archaeologist in Canada (died 1911)
- 27 June â Jamie Anderson, golfer (died 1905)
- 20 September â James Dewar chemist and physicist (died 1923)
- 12 October â Robert Gillespie Reid, railway contractor in Canada (died 1908)
Deaths
- 28 April â Charles Bell, surgeon, anatomist, neurologist and philosophical theologian (born 1774)
- 31 May â James Fergusson, judge (born 1769)
- 12 December â Robert Haldane, theologian (born 1764 in London)
- 24 December â Adam Gillies, Lord Gillies, judge (born 1760)
